Psychiatric comorbidities in epilepsy.
Psychiatric disorders can be identified in 25-50% of patients with epilepsy, with higher prevalence among patients with poorly controlled seizures. These disturbances include depression, anxiety, psychotic disorders, cognitive, and personality changes occurring in the interictal or ictal/postictal states. In this chapter, we describe four areas of focus in women with epilepsy: comorbid primary psychiatric processes, integrated symptoms secondary to epilepsy, stigma and psychosocial consequences of epilepsy, and nonepileptic seizures.
LaFrance
W Curt
WC
Brown Medical School, Rhode Island Hospital, Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology, Providence, Rhode Island 02903, USA.
Kanner
Andres M
AM
Hermann
Bruce
B
D015897:Comorbidity; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*